If You Give an Italian Kid a Meatball

My son is a week away from being 11 months old. We’ve been moving towards more solid foods and today my mother-in-law made pasta and meatballs for the kids. As he was eating, I was laughing at how he maneuvered his tiny fingers around all the pieces of meatball and pushed them to the side to get to the pasta. It made me think about the book If You Give A Dog A Donut by Laura Numeroff. I decided to write my own version:

If You Give an Italian Kid a Meatball

If you give an Italian kid a meatball,

he’ll ask for pasta to go with it.

When you give him the pasta, he’ll need some parmesan cheese.

Then he’ll eat it all and shout for more.

There won’t be any left, so he’ll want to make his own.

You will both go to the supermarket for supplies.

Once you’re at the supermarket, he’ll start tossing all the treats in your shopping cart.

He’ll want to bake cookies when you get home.

You’ll have to take out a pan,

and the mixer.

Of course he’ll also want LOTS of chocolate chips.

He’ll help you bake.

When the cookies are ready he will eat far too many.

Then, he’ll do a happy dance because he can’t contain the sugar intake.

Dancing will make him tired.

You’ll have to put him down for a nap.

When he wakes up he will be hungry again.

You’ll go in the kitchen. It will remind him of meatballs, so he’ll probably want some.

And chances are, if you give him some meatballs,

he’ll want pasta to go with it!